Chapter 18/The French Revolution

How and to what extent did
enlightenment ideas about religion and society shape the policies of the French
Revolution in the period 1789-1799?

11-19 & 20

The French
Revolution: The Crisis of the Monarchy

Identify
the reasons for the monarchy to demand new taxes

Explain
the consequences of Necker’ report and Calonne’s Reform Plan

Describe
the deadlock between the Estates General, the monarchy and others

Activities and Tasks

§H/W
Assigned Reading in preparation for section test: 592-596

11-26

The French
Revolution: Reconstruction, Counter-Revolution, and the end of Monarchy – The
Second Revolution

§Text: Pages 596 -609

Describe
the political re-organization of France and the new
constitution

Discuss
the role of Women as proposed by Olmype de Gouges

Explain
the economic policy of revolutionary France

Analyze
the cause and effects of the Counter Revolution

Tasks

ARQ#1

§H/W.
Assigned Reading pages 596-603

11-27

The French Revolution
- The Terror of 1792, De-Christianization & The Cult of the Supreme Being,
Thermidor, & finally……perspective?

Assigned Text: 609-625

Student Objectives:
The Student Will-

Identify
some of the external factors that led some French revolutionaries to
becomes paranoid that the revolution was about to usurped from within

Explain
how the conflict with other countries led to internal disputes

Analyze
how the concept of the General Will was used to justify the Terror

Discuss
the purpose of the Cult of the Supreme Being

Illustrate
how the people reacted and ended the terror

Describe
the creation of the Directory

Explain
the significance of the removal of the Sans-Culottes from office

Activity

ARQ#2

PowerPoint

DBQ –
The Paris
Jacobin Club Alerts the Nations to Internal Enemies of the Revolution

Read
for H/W 603 - 609

11-28

·ARQ#3

French Revolution Film

h/w read 609-612

12-29 & 30

ARQ#4

French Revolution Film

h/w read 612 - 625

Questions

Why
has France been called a rich nation with an impoverished government?

How did
the financial weaknesses of the French monarchy lay the foundations of the
revolution of 1789?

What
were Louis XVI’s most serious mistakes during the French Revolution? Had he
been a more able ruler, could the French Revolution have been avoided or a
constitutional monarchy succeeded? Did the revolution ultimately have little to
do with the competence of the monarch?

How
was the Estates General transformed into the National Assembly?

How does the
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect the social and political
values of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment?

How were France and its
government reorganized in the early years of the revolution?

Why has the Civil
Constitution of the Clergy been called the greatest blunder of the National
Assembly?

Why
were some political factions dissatisfied with the constitutional settlement of
1791? What was the revolution of 1792 and why did it occur?

Who were the
sans-culottes, and how did they become a factor in the politics of the period?

How influential were they during the Terror in particular? Why did the
sans-culottes and the Jacobins cooperate at first?

Why did that cooperation end?

Why
did France go to war with Austria in 1792? What were the benefits and drawbacks
for France of fighting an external war in the midst of a domestic political
revolution

What
were the causes of the Terror? How did the rest of Europe react to the French
Revolution and the Terror?

How did events in France influence the last two
partitions of Poland?

A motto of the French Revolution was “equality,
liberty, and fraternity.” How did the revolution both support and violate this
motto? Did French womenbenefit from the revolution? Did French peasants
benefit from it?